Yer, I read that a few days back. Sounds pretty feasible, Although I would have expected a dual core CPU. Fits with the "cheap but still pretty good" thing that nintendo seem to be pushing. I can't imagine an announcement on specs/release is too far away now. I definately expect an announcement before e3 (ok, so thats not that close!)
Sucks that the controller will make most multiplatform 3rd party developers develop only for the ps3 and xbox360.
Why in the world would it need 512MB of RAM? Is this thing running Windows XP or something? ...word is bondage...
I don't think the controller will keep multiplatform development away because I think developers will end up using the GC controllers for that. Now if Nintendo demands that they use the new controller for all upcoming Revolution games that will definitely cut down on 3rd party support. I don't see Nintendo making such demands though. They know they don't have that kind of power anymore. Least I hope they do.
i would put less on the ram, and more on the cpu. Those specs are pretty good. Especially for the GPU. The CPU is a bit so-so though, but we'll just wait and see i guess, it's nothing official. For now, anyway. If the CPU is clocked higher, or if there's another core, it could be good second, spec-wise. exact. People seems to forget that there's a contoller shell too. Like on DS, You can use all the features, but you can also stick with the old button scheme. It seems to be the best of both world to me. don't forget that Developement cost will be really high on the next-gen, and the Revo will have a lower production cost than the others. Let's just pray that the controller shell will be bundled with the system, or that it's cheap, at least.
:smt045 Erm, wait, No! Ermm...Well, Yes... 'cause the system uses SD cards, it would be way too easy to go on the net with a Pc and copy regular roms to the SD card. It will use A DRM or a special format. EDIT: haven't seen it this way. Nintendo is going to be 3rd party friendly in the future? Online, The Shell and Now this.
It wouldn't necessarily be any easier than say with a PSP and Pro Duo cards, you (normally, without any extra software) can't just stick an ISO on the card and expect the PSP to run it.
Anyway, here's what Han Solo told to someone somewhere in this thread (for the lazy guys who won't click on the link to save energy (Yes, i'm lookin at you!)) And after... system 1.5: that's all for the thread highlight. But remember that this is someone posting on the web, it could be false.
Thats a lof ot 1T-SRAM, hope they sell it at an affordable price. 512 is a good chunk of ram, it will help in reducing loading times.
they said it would be the cheapest system of the next-gen at launch, just as the gamecube, if i remember right.
Load times are definetly something im concerned about for this next generation of consoles. Their have been a few devs that said they had to cut back in their games because the dvd drive wasn't fast enough to stream everything. Their was even a cam vid I watched with a tech demo for the xbox 360 which took like four minutes to load. Playstation 3 will have a blue ray disc drive, but those are supposed to be very expensive and supposedly sony is looking at only putting a 1x drive in (which is still quite fast compared to dvd speeds, but still...). We don't know what the revolution will be using, but it'll probably be some sort of proprietary media. Im hoping they do something special with the drive (assuming this media will be disc based obviously) like multiple laser heads for faster loading as opposed to trying to spin the disc faster then the speed of light.
There was a 72x Cd-Rom Drive a few years back using a few lasers. I'd hope that something is done to improve loading times. They shouldnt still be around now.
